“Nothing can be truly replicated. Not a love, not a jewel, not a single line.”— Patti Smith, amazon.comTagged: Love, beauty, replicate, Art
“No satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”— Martha Graham, amazon.comTagged: Art, Satisfaction, Artists, Life, curiousity
“Under all circumstances, we must never desert ourselves.”— Louisa Adams, amazon.comTagged: self, Self-awareness, Truth, Life
“Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with her new masters to avoid being rejected or, in more dire cases, punished. Then there would be the phase…”— Laura Esquivel, amazon.comTagged: Growing Up, Womanhood, self, maturity
“I went out with a guy who once told me I didn’t need to drink to make myself more fun to be around. I told him, I’m drinking so that you’re more fun to be around.”— Chelsea Handler, amazon.comTagged: Womanhood, humor, Relationships, How To Be Single Again, Single Life
“I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.”— Lena Dunham, amazon.comTagged: write, Destiny, Calling, self
“I think the great illusion of adulthood is that you’re going to get to this phase and be like ‘Oh, now I feel grounded and I feel like I know how to get from here to there.’ But that’s the thing with life. Maybe that’s so and then somebody gets sick and you have to deal with all the feelings that co…”— Anna Sale, thetimbre.comTagged: Adulthood, Myths, Illusions, Life, Surprises
“Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence. She knew how to go beyond the limit without ever truly suffering the consequences. In the end people gave in, and were even, however unwillingly, compelled to praise her.”— Elena Ferrante, amazon.comTagged: strength, fragility, Limitations, Womanhood
“You have to drown out those little voices in your head telling you that you can’t do anything spectacular, because you’ll fail, or because you’re simply not good enough, and what on earth makes you think that you have what it takes? Pay no attention to this. Hear those voices and make it your missio…”— Shani Jayawardena, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Loving Yourself, strength, Confidence, Self-Love
“Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to do. Don’t stay when you know you should go or go when you know you should stay. Don’t fight when you should hold steady or hold steady when you should fight. Don’t focus on the short-term fun instead of the long-term fall out. Don’t surr…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Self-improvement, Self-awareness, Self-Love
“But here’s the deal, sweet stranger. You deserve to be the protagonist of your own wonderful, bizarre, terrifying little life. If you decide you are enough, you are enough. You don’t need to wait for some grand external validation of your worth before you offer your kindest heart to yourself.”— Kathy Brown, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Selfish, Self-Love, Being Selfish, Loving Yourself
“The conclusion we drew from this convinced us that it was best to do everything on purpose, deliberately, so that you would know what to expect.”— Elena Ferrante, amazon.comTagged: purpose, Chance, Expectations, Uncertainty
“An amazing thing happens when you stop seeking approval and validation: You find it. People are naturally drawn like magnets to those who know who they are and cannot be shaken.”— Mandy Hale, amazon.comTagged: Approval, Validation, Self-Love, Self-Acceptance, Independence
“Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are.”— Stephanie Lahart, amazon.comTagged: Hard Work, Dreams, Self-Love
“I fell in love with myself and I thought about what makes me, I am just like a flower that needs watering to grow. I learned to nurture myself in every way. I love myself for all the good that I see and accept my flaws and the fact that I am imperfect. This does not mean that I do not learn to chang…”— Denise Small, amazon.comTagged: Self-Love, Loving Yourself, Embracing Yourself, I Am A Flower, Loving Myself Despite Flaws
“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”— Tina Fey, amazon.comTagged: Be yourself, Confidence, Self-Love
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”— Eleanor Roosevelt,, amazon.comTagged: Confidence, Self-Love
“If you're going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.”— Jojo Moyes, amazon.comTagged: Love, Confidence, Self-Love, beauty
“The minute you learn to love yourself, you would not want to be anybody else.”— Rihanna, elle.comTagged: Self love, Inspirational, Confidence, Girl Power, Body Positive
“Remember that you were art long before he came to admire you, and you'll continue to be art even when he's gone.”— Charlotte Geier, annaheritage.tumblr.comTagged: After Him, After Love, Moving On, Letting Go, You Are Art
“In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.”— Hillary Clinton, marieclaire.comTagged: Womanhood, Marginalization, Girls, Globalization
“You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt but still, like dust, I’ll rise.”— Maya Angelou, amazon.comTagged: feminism, strength, Self love, Poetry, Spilled Ink
“Here is how you walk away from him: you get up, flick your hair, sashay away and never look back.”— Kat George, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Moving On, Breaking Up, Exes, Leaving, Goodbyes
“If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.”— Natalie Portman, imdb.comTagged: humor, Laughter, Loving Yourself, Laughing At Yourself, Self-Love
“I am a woman with thoughts and questions and shit to say. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story — I will.”— Amy Schumer, vulture.comTagged: feminism, Self-Worth, Self-Love, Putting Yourself First, Owning Yourself
“Wake up, decide to be confident, and then do it.”— Kendra Syrdal, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Confidence, Self-Love, Self-Image, Self-Worth, Love Yourself
“My mother always told me, 'hide your face-people are looking at you.' I would reply, 'It does not matter; I am also looking at them.'”— Malala Yousafzai, amazon.comTagged: Bravery, Courage, strength, Womanhood, Obstacles
“I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”— Madonna, people.comTagged: feminism, Bitch, Loving Yourself, Self-Love, Women
“I never used to be bothered by how small I was. Then something happened… and I was. Then I fell in love with myself again, and I wasn’t bothered anymore. I never will be again.”— Quinta Brunson, thequintab.tumblr.comTagged: feminism, Self-Love, Loving Yourself, Self-Image, Independence